[plug] LaTeX -> Word converter?

[Nick Bannon]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:33:48PM +0800, Christian wrote:
[zeroing allocated space]
> It may be a perfectly reasonable assumption but it's still not an
> acceptable one on any multiuser system [1].  There's no point having
[...]

Well, yes - we're talking Word 6 (for Windows 3.1), though... Linux and
NT _do_ do zeroing. (I think Linux uses optimised FPU assembler to do
it on x86) I still it's reprehensible that Word leaves large chunks of
unused space in the saved file - the fact that it has security
implications as well is almost beside the point. ::-)

Of course, the next question is whether it's still like this. Office97
for Win95 is - how about Office2000 for WinME?

Nick.

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